Subject: RE: VAX now runs multicpu!
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Carlini, Antonio <Antonio.Carlini@riverstonenet.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/30/2001 11:47:19
You forget the VAX 8300 (which can also probably take 3 CPUs
if you feel really weird...)
Antonio
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anders Magnusson [SMTP:ragge@ludd.luth.se]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 5:16 PM
> To: port-vax@netbsd.org; tech-smp@netbsd.org
> Subject: VAX now runs multicpu!
>
> I just got a VAX 8350 with 3 CPUs to use all three processors.
> I have tested it a little, and it seems to work quite fine :-)
> It shouldn't be too hard to make it running on some funnier
> machines, like the 8800 and the 6000 series.
>
> The VAX 8350 system is probably the slowest multiprocessor system
> that NetBSD will ever support; each CPU does about 2VUPS (~2MIPS) :-)
>
> -- Ragge